Teachers' Resistance in Oaxaca Offers Lessons for Activism in the US Lois Meyer and Ricardo Rosa - Truthout
go to original October 15, 2015

A banner talks about the events in Oaxaca due to the teacher's strike in January of 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Quite Peculiar)

Since Mexico's midterm elections last June, Oaxaca and several other Mexican states have endured massive militarization by federal troops. The elections served as a convenient pretext to heavily militarize states, especially Oaxaca, in order to repress teacher mobilizations against the imposed federal education reforms and union-busting aggressions. The only significant coverage to break the virtual silence across all US media was published by Truthout on August 1.

...In Oaxaca, we are witnessing a form of contestation to the corporate agenda in education that includes teachers, students and the public. Despite media misinformation or silence, the resistance is sustained and so far nonviolent. Resistance to the corporate stampede in the United States has been far too insular.

We must understand, following Oaxaca's example, that this is not merely an issue for and about teachers. It is about all of our children and the quality of their public school education. It is not teacher activism and organizing that endangers our freedoms, but rather the silencing of information and serious debate and legitimate protest about a matter as crucial as the education of our children.

Read the rest at Truthout

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